Marvel's Inhumans will tell the never-before-told origin story for Black Bolt, king of a race of super-powered beings. The Inhumans are traditionally portrayed as originating from the lost city of Atillan on the moon.

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Black Bolt is the most powerful of all of the Inhumans, able to bring civilisations to to ruin with the sound of his voice alone.

"Anson loves the challenge of playing a character who will only communicate silently," Marvel Television boss Jeph Loeb announced today (February 28).

"His enthusiasm mixed with his imposing almost regal persona made it easy to see why he is our Black Bolt."

Marvel also gave us a tease from showrunner Scott Buck (Six Feet Under), who said: "Black Bolt is a character whose deep complexity must be conveyed without uttering a single word, and I'm very excited to have Anson on board to bring him to life."

Anson Mount silenced his fair share of villains as the sharpshooting ex-Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon in the cult favourite Hell on Wheels - and has previous comic book experience from an appearance in Smallville.

He'll have a very worth adversary in Iwan Rheon, who is swapping playing a sadistic tyrant in Game of Thrones to play a would-be sadistic tyrant Marvel's Inhumans.